Emi Kuraya
Untitled
2017
Oil pen on paper
39.5 × 30.4 cm
Unique
Location: Hong-Kong, Hong Kong
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652078077
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About the artwork
Like a photograph, this work seems to freeze a young girl with apparent purity and gentleness. Capturing a moment, enigmatic and evanescent, Emi Kuraya takes up a leitmotif of her work, that of young girls with pastel colors and big eyes whose thoughts seem elusive. In this way, she creates a certain sense of unease that contrasts with the apparent serenity of the scene. Shifting the work between happiness and darker reflections, the artist invites us to question questions of immediacy and tranquility.
Expert opinion
An artist on the rise, Emi Kuraya is making her mark and is already being hailed by some as one of the most interesting and promising artists on the Japanese contemporary scene.
About the artist
Japanese artist born in 1995. Graduate of Tokyo's Kama Art University. Through her pastel works imbued with a sense of gentleness and innocence, mostly depicting young girls alone or with a pet, Emi Kuraya invites us to reflect on the meaning of the moment. She is also a member of Kaiki Kiki, an art company founded by Takashi Murakami since 2018, and has seen her work exhibited at Galerie Perrotin in Seoul, Art Basel (Hong Kong) and the Frieze Art Fair in New York.
“The space between the extraordinary, singular moments and the everyday, the routine, reveals the light and darkness that have accumulated within me. By depicting the past through the filter of the present, I explore both this lightness and darkness.”
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